Van Parys was part of the 1988 parliamentary commission looking into the "ways that banditry and terrorism suppression are organized [in Belgium]." Together with Philippe Laurent of the Parti social chrétien he wrote the main report that detailed the results.
He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.[1] Van Parys succeeded Erik De Lembre as chairman of the board of directors of Ghent's Arteveldehogeschool in October 2011.[2]
Philippe or Filip is King of the Belgians. He is the eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola. He succeeded his father upon the latter's abdication for health reasons on 21 July 2013. He married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in 1999, with whom he has four children. Their eldest child, Princess Elisabeth, is first in the line of succession.
Parys is a town situated on the banks of the Vaal River in the Free State province of South Africa. The name of the town is the Afrikaans translation of Paris. The name was given by a German surveyor named Schilbach who had participated in the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and the location next to the Vaal reminded him of Paris on the River Seine. The area of Parys also includes the two townships Tumahole and Schonkenville. www.parys.co.za
Laurette A. J. Onkelinx is a Belgian politician from the Francophone Socialist Party. She was the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health in the Belgian federal government, i.e., the Di Rupo Government, which took office on 6 December 2011.
St. James' Church is a former Collegiate church in Antwerp, Belgium. The church is built on the site of a hostel for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. The present building is the work of the Waghemakere family and Rombout Keldermans, in Brabantine Gothic style. The church contains the grave of Peter Paul Rubens in the eastern chapel.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Belgium are seen as some of the most progressive in Europe and in the world. In 2021, ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium as second in the European Union for LGBT rights protection, behind Malta.
Charles Jean Emmanuel Janssen was a Belgian liberal deputy of Walloon Brabant. He was the son of Emmanuel Janssen and Paule Van Parys. He was married to Marie-Anne Boël, daughter of the Vice-president of the Belgian Senate Pol Boël. Together they had three children: Paul-Emmanuel Janssen, Eric Janssen, and Daniel Janssen.
Maurice Auguste Count Lippens was a noble Belgian businessman, politician, and colonial civil servant and lawyer.
Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique. He is buried in the cemetery at Villiers-sur-Marne.
Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
Van Parys is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Louis Van Parijs, also spelled Parys was a Belgian swimmer who won two medals in the 200m breaststroke at the 1926 and 1927 European Aquatics Championships. He was the national champion in the same event in 1925–1927, 1930 and 1937, but also competed in freestyle swimming and won the 200m and 400m national titles in 1927. He participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics but did not reach the finals.
Germaine Van Parys, also Van Parijs, (1893–1983) was a Belgian photojournalist. She was the first woman in Belgium to join the profession, which was very unusual to find a woman mentioned in the history of photography before 1920s. She left an extensive collection covering the people and places she photographed from 1918 to 1968, documenting key events in the country's history.
Ronald G. Parys was an American politician who was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
The Rubens family is a Flemish noble family that lived in Antwerp.
Annelies Van Parys is a Belgian classical composer of chamber music, symphonic music, music for theatre productions and opera.
Events in the year 1958 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Belgian Congo.
Cieltje Van Achter is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party.
Lorin Parys is a Belgian politician and lawyer affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance party.
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